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he voted for the 1960 civil rights bill. they have been enacted. he comes to the senate in 1959. 19 offices in the congress are integrated. only 19 are integrated and byrd is one of the 19. he integrated the police force. he integrated the police force. "how can it because sky a racist?"call this guy a way,s why he voted that because of the issues. i can go on with example afterif you pull things out of conservative. the majority issues, that's why he voted that way, not because never changed, the issues changed. the very first thing when he's elected to congress, the very first thing he does is propose -- how does that answer your question? >> a history lesson. >> the point i was trying to record, i can go on forever, but book, in the obama chapter, president obama. no, he's always been consistent on this. >> any other questions? all right. well, thank you both so much for[applause] national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> here is what is coming up on christmas day. a look at women in leadership po
he voted for the 1960 civil rights bill. they have been enacted. he comes to the senate in 1959. 19 offices in the congress are integrated. only 19 are integrated and byrd is one of the 19. he integrated the police force. he integrated the police force. "how can it because sky a racist?"call this guy a way,s why he voted that because of the issues. i can go on with example afterif you pull things out of conservative. the majority issues, that's why he voted that way, not because never...
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in our own country, lawyers and people have experienced a lot of pain in the civil rights movement. what would be -- what would be a way to avoid these calamitous events and bring about the rule of law? >> we will not fire you. they might be willing to do that. if they did that, the judges would love it. nobody else would like it. but maybe they would do it. we have an administrative law rule. let's have all of the court proceedings on television. the proceedings. not the deliberations. let's have the trials and all those things. maybe they would do that. what about the arbitration system? you are now paying them so much and you are not firing them. why don't we do it according to prepublished rules? there are so many things. you do not have to do everything at once. she sent us a film from china, which we looked at. it was a school, fifth graders. the fifth graders had suggested to the government -- they did a film than it is absolutely priceless. the parents -- they did not know how to do it. they would make this mistake or that mistake and it would have its comical elements. they
in our own country, lawyers and people have experienced a lot of pain in the civil rights movement. what would be -- what would be a way to avoid these calamitous events and bring about the rule of law? >> we will not fire you. they might be willing to do that. if they did that, the judges would love it. nobody else would like it. but maybe they would do it. we have an administrative law rule. let's have all of the court proceedings on television. the proceedings. not the deliberations....
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there with the the civil rights movement and music was a huge thing during the seventies had the stature kind of revolution that seemed to bring about punk as saying at against that what was going on in society then you had this period of really reaganism and fatter ism which you seem to go into a more stadium punk rock you two kind of period of well really yeah you quite right lot of patriotism but things are changing obviously they're changing because john cooper clarke is back in the house and really the king is back and so something is happening we are the subjects of the king must hear what's happening what's going on but like i say things operate changed a bit for me to say well i've always you know of always. that's always been my main thing live but life show what were you surprised when your poetry was included now in the official syllabus of the of the education system here in britain i was kind of surprised but it did me a lot of good and i think it's generally. responsible for. any renewed interest in my still and only because you know that catchment area when when people wer
there with the the civil rights movement and music was a huge thing during the seventies had the stature kind of revolution that seemed to bring about punk as saying at against that what was going on in society then you had this period of really reaganism and fatter ism which you seem to go into a more stadium punk rock you two kind of period of well really yeah you quite right lot of patriotism but things are changing obviously they're changing because john cooper clarke is back in the house...
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he voted against the civil rights bill. back it up a little bit. 1960, the senate was considering of legislation to abolish coal tax. byrd voted against it. byrd tried to explain he was not opposed to the intent of the legislation, but it goes against the state rights. therefore, congress cannot step in and say -- byrd said to do it right. he said he could not vote on it if it was going to be done this way. two years later, congress comes back with a constitutional amendment and byrd voted for it. he voted for it once they did it right with a constitutional amendment. he filibustered, it is true. there was a 14 hour filibuster. read through the thing. everyone points out him being racist. read throughout the filibuster. there is not one racial thing. the whole thing is basically constitutional law. he makes clear to make it right before he can support it. he agrees that there should be no discrimination in the standards. the objective sought -- the objective here is a worthy one. he concurs with the objective. here he is ta
he voted against the civil rights bill. back it up a little bit. 1960, the senate was considering of legislation to abolish coal tax. byrd voted against it. byrd tried to explain he was not opposed to the intent of the legislation, but it goes against the state rights. therefore, congress cannot step in and say -- byrd said to do it right. he said he could not vote on it if it was going to be done this way. two years later, congress comes back with a constitutional amendment and byrd voted for...
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we hear the confrontations of the civil rights movement and the life or death decisions being made during the cuban missile crisis. >> caroline kennedy joins in a discussion on the 1963 recordings of the late president in the oval office, as "book tv" continues through the holiday on c-span-2. >> as president obama begins his second term in office, what is the most important issue we should consider? >> tell us. make a short video about your message. >> it is c-span's student cam video competition. it is your chance to win the grand prize of $50,000. the deadline is january 18. for more information, go to studentcam.org. >> the first lady and two white house chefs recently held a demonstration with children in the state dining room. >> showing these flags. and all of the other ornaments on the tree here have been from previous years. we try to reuse them in a different format. the rest of the ornaments came from other trees in the white house. 60% of the ornaments are recycled from previous years. pardon me? >> [inaudible] >> all trees in the house. [inaudible conversations] ♪ [inaudibl
we hear the confrontations of the civil rights movement and the life or death decisions being made during the cuban missile crisis. >> caroline kennedy joins in a discussion on the 1963 recordings of the late president in the oval office, as "book tv" continues through the holiday on c-span-2. >> as president obama begins his second term in office, what is the most important issue we should consider? >> tell us. make a short video about your message. >> it is...